Percona is pleased to officially (and belatedly) welcome Sasha Pachev to our team of consultants. Before joining Percona, Sasha worked as an independent MySQL consultant. Sasha was the original implementer and maintainer of MySQL replication from 3.23 to 4.02. He is also the author of MySQL Enterprise Solutions and Understanding MySQL Internals. Sasha, a big […]

Percona Server version 5.1.53-12.4 is now available for download. It is now the current stable release version. Functionality Added or Changed Â Percona ServerÂ 5.1.53-12.4 is based on MySQL 5.1.53. Â New Features Added: Precompiled UDFs for Maatkit (FNV and MurmurHash hash functions to provide faster checksums) are now included in distributions. Fixes feature request #689992. (Aleksandr Kuzminsky) […]

Inspired by Baron’s earlier post, here is one I hear quite frequently – “If you enable innodb_file_per_table, each table is it’s own .ibd file.Â You can then relocate the heavy hit tables to a different location and create symlinks to the original location.” There are a few things wrong with this advice:

In my previous posts I highlighted that one of improvements in Percona Server is support of innodb_log_file_size > 4G. This test was done using Percona Server 5.5.7, but the same performance expected for InnoDB-plugin and MySQL 5.5.

This is to follow up on my previous post and show the results for MySQL 5.5.8 and Percona Server on the fastest hardware I have in our lab:Â a Cisco UCS C250 server with 384GB of RAM, powered by a Virident tachIOn 400GB SLC card. To see different I/O patterns, I used different innodb_buffer_pool_size settings: 13G, […]

As we can see, MySQL 5.5.8 comes with great improvements and scalability fixes. Adding up allÂ the new features, you haveÂ a great release. However, there is one area I want to touch on in this post. At Percona, weÂ consider itÂ important not only to have the best peak performance, butÂ also stable and predictable performance. I refer you […]

Last Friday I published results of DBT2 performance while varying the number of idle connections here, but I had compiled MySQL with the debugging code enabled. That completely screw up my results, be aware… debug options have a huge performance impact. So, I recompiled Percona-Server 11.2 without the debug options and did another benchmark run. […]

Be careful with my findings, I appear to have compile in debug mode, I am redoing the benchmarks. Updated version here. I recently had to work with many customers having large number of connections opened in MySQL and although I told them this was not optimal, I had no solid arguments to present. More than […]

Percona Server version 5.1.53-11.7 is now available for download. The main purpose of this release is to update the current Percona stable release to the latest version of MySQL 5.1. Functionality Added or Changed Â Percona Server 5.1.53-11.7 is now based on MySQL 5.1.53. Â New Features Added: None Â Other Changes: None Bugs Fixed Bug #643149 – […]

Just yesterday we released Percona Server 5.1.52-12.3 which includes HandlerSocket. This is third-party plugin, developed by Akira Higuci, DeNA Co., Ltd and explained in Yoshinori Matsunobu’s blog post. What is so special about it: It provides NOSQL-like requests to data stored in XtraDB. So in the same time you can access your data in SQL […]